Best Film Score

bonzai bob

What's your favorite score? i don't mean soundtrack per se, but actual scores, pieces of music!

I've just downloaded the scores to the Gladiator, Apollo 13 and The Perfect Storm, all of which are amazing! I'm looking for others but i can't really think of many. I know about stars wars but if i listen to that i'll just be thinking of star wars.

So what's your fave?

fade2black

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=232088

bonzai bob

ah, touché

fade2black

Just handier than writing it all out again. I'm a bit of a film score buff.

Hugh Hefner

The Donnie Darko score is excellent.

projectmayhem

i'm with hugh there, donnie darko's score is great. as is fight club's. i love the matrix scores, they're very suited to the film (sounds stupid but there are so many scores that are just some guy composing feelings without trying to make some sound that suits the film)

bonzai bob

Just after downloading the K-PAX score, very good, only listened to the first track but i'm impressed.

nesf

I always liked the Omen soundtrack. Ave Satani at full volume. The best way to introduce yourself to your new OAP neighbours

Kazaanova

Lord of the Rings has a very good score, but my favourite would have to be Gladiator or the Last of the Mohicans. Would a song played during a film count as the score or the soundtrack? Does a peice of music have to be instrumental and composed by the films composer to be counted as the score?

Patricide

check out all the lord of the rings score there all pretty damm good, my personal fave score, although not a movie's but a game's is the score from final fantasy VIII(thats 8 for the un-enlightened folk)

Brock

the mission score is excellent

TerrorFirmer

Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, both fantastic, particularly Star Wars

I'm also very partial to Basil Poledouris' scores in Starship Troopers and Robocop!

Basq

Scores that come to mind:

Lord Of The Rings
Donnie Darko
Unbreakable
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Karl Hungus

MobileInfantry wrote:

I'm also very partial to Basil Poledouris' scores in Starship Troopers and Robocop!

How DARE you suggest Basil Poledouris and not mention his score for Conan The Barbarian! You sicken me. :mad:

Kazaanova

I forgot Eternal Sunshine, amazing score by Jon Brion, especially the song in the car scene near the end.

Man on Fire has a pretty good score, but the song "the End" by Harry Gregson-Williams is astounding, just a really strong piece of music.

Hans Zimmer has done a lot of good scores too, it must be really difficult. The Last Samurai was his 100th wasnt it? I cant imagine how, but hes able to score a lot of, kind of average medicore blockbusters, and still make each score sound different.

ixoy

The Kronos Quartet's work on 'Requiem for a Dream' is pretty damn nifty.

Retr0gamer

My favourite john williams score is for Raiders of the Lost Ark followed by Star wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Thought the score for Wings of Honneamise by Ryuichi Sakimoto was superb.

Other favourites would be Lord of the Rings, Das Boot, Requiem for a Dream and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

Zounds

ixoy wrote:

The Kronos Quartet's work on 'Requiem for a Dream' is pretty damn nifty.

Pure brilliance in my opinion, Clint Mansell was the composer. My favourite piece is Lux Aeterna, beautiful and intense, matches the film perfectly

John

Requiem for a Dream's score is absolutely gorgeous. One of the few soundtracks I'd listen to regularly. Michael Nyman's score for The Piano is wonderful too. Others worthy of mention are Tindersticks' Trouble Every Day and Einstuerzende Neubauten's Berlin Babylon. Two "normal" bands making beautiful scores.

ObeyGiant

Koyaanisqatsi. Nothing even comes close.
Mods, you can close this thread now, it's over.

nadir

Conan the Barbarian score by Basil Poledouris. Definately my no 1.
I guess people dont know the film well karl , and just think of robocop

LoneGunM@n

My fav is The Gladiator

Braveheart & Michael Collins are there or there abouts!!

Hugh Hefner

Run Lola Run's score was fine ass. What A Difference A Day Makes was made for it.

Jon Brion did I <Heart> Huckabees too didn't he? He wrote that excellent song for it, Knock Yourself Out. Very catchy.

Winters

I really like the music Joe Hisaishi has done for the Miyazaki films.

garred

Without a doubt Platoon. Also liked Braveheart and Excalibur.

Unit00

The Akira Soundtrack

Fight Club

Requiem for a dream

Natural Born Killers

maquiladora

Howard Shore's score for The Lord Of The Rings is possibilty consistently the best music ever composed for film.

The classic William's scores from the likes of Close Encounters, Raiders and Star Wars are simply amazing too.

I'm also a big fan of Bernard Herrmann's score from Citizen Kane and Vertigo (seriously haunting).

And of course you can't forget Ennio Morricone's unearthly good scores for the likes of The Mission, Once Upon A Time In The West and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

projectmayhem

someone mentioned akira & requiem for a dream, yes yes yes! also, PI. i don't think it counts but the score for the metal gear solid games are amazing (just got #3 today), done by harry gregson-williams

Retr0gamer

projectmayhem wrote:

i don't think it counts but the score for the metal gear solid games are amazing (just got #3 today), done by harry gregson-williams

He only does maybe 10 tracks. the rest are done by the in house konami composer (who is also a composing god).

Can't wait until Micheal Giachianno gets some more big movies to score. I'm a big fan of all his soundtracks for games (CoD and MoH), tv series (Alias and Lost) and recently for films (Incredibles).

Basq

Retr0gamer wrote:

He only does maybe 10 tracks. the rest are done by the in house konami composer (who is also a composing god).

Can't wait until Micheal Giachianno gets some more big movies to score. I'm a big fan of all his soundtracks for games (CoD and MoH), tv series (Alias and Lost) and recently for films (Incredibles).

Michael Giachianno has come up with some amazing instrumental pieces in 'Lost' anyways!

Hugh Hefner

maquiladora wrote:

I'm also a big fan of Bernard Herrmann's score from Citizen Kane and Vertigo (seriously haunting).

And on that note Psycho gets a mention (watched it last night).

mike65

Dont forget Ennio Morricone! The main theme to Once Upon a Time in the West is the most beautiful piece ever plus his other stuff is'nt bad!

Lalo Schifrin for his ultra-cool scores - Bullitt, Dirty Harry and Enter the Dragon among others.

Mike.

TerrorFirmer

Retr0gamer wrote:

He only does maybe 10 tracks. the rest are done by the in house konami composer (who is also a composing god).

Can't wait until Micheal Giachianno gets some more big movies to score. I'm a big fan of all his soundtracks for games (CoD and MoH), tv series (Alias and Lost) and recently for films (Incredibles).

I can still remember the tracks for Medal Of Honor on the PSX. Absolutely fantastic, the best soundtrack I'd heard in a game up to its release - really heightened the overall experience of the game.

Garred wrote:

Without a doubt Platoon

Hell yes

TerrorFirmer

nadir wrote:

Conan the Barbarian score by Basil Poledouris. Definately my no 1.
I guess people dont know the film well karl , and just think of robocop

What the hecks this meant to mean? Oh, I know his name, so I'll just name a random film of his as my favourite. Maybe thats how you work, but not me or I suspect most people. :rolleyes:

I said Robocop because I genuinely love the score, why else would I say it? Certainly not for the sake of it, as you are implying, I assure you most people know Conan the Barbarian more then Robocop. I own all of the Conan movies on DVD, not particularly moved by the Scores.

That was truly the most puzzling post I've seen all day.

nadir

because the Conan score is quite clearly better

What the hecks this meant to mean? Oh, I know his name, so I'll just name a random film of his as my favourite. Maybe thats how you work, but not me or I suspect most people.

not I and perhaps not you, but I doubt most people are aware of our good friend Basil, and rather remember the music from the film... I stick with my opinion

garred

Actually changed my mind, its gotta be JAWS!!!!

Peteee

The Bourne Supremacy by John Powell is good.

Anything by Has Zimmer or John Williams

LegacyUser

this aint too bad, http://songs2.allofmp3.com/mcatalog.shtml?group=7391&album=1&albref=14

gladiator is class too

Kazaanova

mike65 wrote:

Dont forget Ennio Morricone! The main theme to Once Upon a Time in the West is the most beautiful piece ever plus his other stuff is'nt bad!

Damn I had been forgetting him. Without a doubt my favourite Ennio Morricone piece is Ecstasy of Gold. He has loads of of greats though.

PWEI

ixoy wrote:

The Kronos Quartet's work on 'Requiem for a Dream' is pretty damn nifty.

Yes the Kronos Quartet worked on Requiem for a Dream but the entire score was wrote by Clint Mansell and is one of my favourites. Another great score
was Angelo Badalamenti's score on The Beach.None of it appeared on the sountrack but the entire score was released on a separate album but was very hard to find.I had to get it on ebay from America.

John

PWEI wrote:

Another great score was Angelo Badalamenti's score on The Beach.None of it appeared on the sountrack but the entire score was released on a separate album but was very hard to find.I had to get it on ebay from America.

I've never heard that score but anything else by Badalamenti I've heard has been great

ro1798

virgin sucides by air stunning

ronan

Larianne

Music in Edward Scissorhands by Danny Elfman. I especially love 'The Ice Dance'. So short though!!

Have a John Williams CD with loads different themes on it. The Jaws theme still scares me!! :eek:

BraveheartGal

i love that soundtrack too

the braveheart soundtrack is awesome, all music, no singing and trad instruments like the flute and the uillean pipes
haunting


i dont have the soundtrack itself but the actual theme from schindlers list is one of the best pieces of music ever.

Necronomicon

My favourite is probably Clint Mansell's score for Requiem For A Dream.

PWEI

John2 wrote:

I've never heard that score but anything else by Badalamenti I've heard has been great

It's well worth getting but as I was saying really hard to find.
I ordered it used from amazon.com but amazon weren't
able to get it so I spent six months trying to get it on ebay.
Incidentally, for those of you who like the score from Requiem
For A Dream,Clint Mansell wrote the score for Sahara which is
also pretty good. Unfornuntely most of the music didn't appear
on the "music from and inspired" sountrack but a separate
album is to be released with the entire score on it and a vocal
remix of the track Rock On which was on the soundtrack.
Here's a list of the flims that Clint has worked on;



http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0543739/

IANOC

has to be "Oh Brother Where Art Thou"

by the coen bros

John

PWEI, am I wrong in thinking that you're a Pop Will Eat Itself fan? Good knowledge of Clint Mansell and the fact that your name is an acronym for Pop Will Eat Itself lead me to think that I'm right.

I wasn't that gone on his soundtrack for Pi. But then that film always seemed like a test run on all fronts for Requiem for a Dream.

PWEI

John2 wrote:

PWEI, am I wrong in thinking that you're a Pop Will Eat Itself fan? Good knowledge of Clint Mansell and the fact that your name is an acronym for Pop Will Eat Itself lead me to think that I'm right.

I wasn't that gone on his soundtrack for Pi. But then that film always seemed like a test run on all fronts for Requiem for a Dream.

The name kinda of gives it away eh?
I met Clint Mansell last Januray in Birmigham.
He got back together with the rest of Pop Will Eat Itself
for a brief "reformation" tour which completely sold out .
He obviously wasn't doing it for the money but probably
as a favour to the other band members who haven't done
quite as well as him.It was great meeting him again after
more than ten years.He's a really down to earth guy even now
with his Hollywood millions.I met him in the Holiday Inn after
one of the gigs where he went cause he knew there was a load
of fans meeting up there.We even had a chat about
the infamous Late Late Show appearance when they thrashed
all the equipment much to the disgust of Gaybo.